Tickets on sale now for Slapstick’s 20th birthday & Valentine’s Day gala!
Posted on: 11 Sep 2024Stars of the stage, screen and music charts will be on the bill when Bristol’s Slapstick Festival of silent and classic comedy celebrates its landmark annual gala in 2025.
Slapstick Festival’s Valentine’s Day Gala will take place at Bristol Beacon on Friday 14 February 2025.
Bookings are now open for the traditional centrepiece of laughter fest and organisers have also announced that gala highlights will include keyboard icon Rick Wakeman CBE playing live to a Laurel & Hardy short and the return of The Matinee Idles – an acapella band featuring screen star Paul McGann and doo-wap chart toppers, DARTS.
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Calling all cinephiles - set your alarms for this Thursday (12th September)! Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt ???? as the Slapstick Festival Gala is back on 14th February! pic.twitter.com/uwPn5CwNPQ
— Slapstick Festival (@SlapstickFest) September 10, 2024
Speaking about the 2025 gala, the Slapstick Festival director Chris Daniels says: “Slapstick’s Silent Comedy Gala is always a highlight of the festival and 2025’s will be extra special – taking place in our 20th birthday year and on Valentine’s Day.”
To honour the date, three bona fide silent comedy gems will be screened, namely Laurel & Hardy’s final silent short Angora Love (1929), Charlie Chaplin’s increasingly relevant The Immigrant (1917) and, the main feature, Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928).
All these films are beautifully restored, showing on a giant screen and accompanied live by world-class musicians including the European Silent Screen Virtuosi, Bristol Ensemble members and Rick Wakeman – all guaranteed to spark laughter.
If that’s not enough, there will also be a flashback to the very first Gala in 2005, courtesy of Matinee Idles, featuring Doctor Who and Withnail and I star Paul McGann as well as members of DARTS – all in all a very lovely Valentine’s Day treat!
On top of The Gala, Slapstick Festival will be joined by a programme jam-packed with other screen comedy events when Slapstick returns to Bristol between Wednesday 12 and Sunday 16 February 2025. Keep an eye out for an announcement in mid-October!
Slapstick Festival’s Valentine’s Day Gala will take place at Bristol Beacon on Friday 14 February 2025 – tickets are on sale now HERE.
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Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.
